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International Baccalaureate Schools as Islands of Educational Resistance. A Case Study of Poland
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Joanna Leek – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This study discusses International Baccalaureate schools in Poland from the perspective of their educational function to serve as a resistance to counterbalance trends toward nationalisation in the Polish educational landscape. To address this aim, a review of the relevant legislation has been carried out, accompanied by interviews with teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, International Schools, Resistance (Psychology)
From Educational Experiment to an Alternative to the National Programme. International Baccalaureate Programmes in Poland -- Policy and Practice Perspectives
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Leek, Joanna – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The goal of this study is to examine the distinctive features of International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes in Poland, and the role of IB programmes in the Polish education system. To address this aim, a review of the relevant legislation has been carried out, accompanied by interviews with teachers and students in 9 IB schools in Poland. Results…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program's Impacting High School Culture and Climate
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Duarte, George – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School reformers are often searching for a program that will have a positive and far-reaching effect on a school campus. Researchers and writers have described the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB DP) as a largely positive influence on a school campus, providing a rigorous and standards-based curriculum to IB DP students. However,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, School Culture, Educational Environment
Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings
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Anderson, Vivienne, Ed.; Johnson, Henry, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique…
Descriptors: Immigration, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Schools and Inter-Cultural Understanding in China
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
The number of International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) schools has increased rapidly in China in recent years. However, access to schools offering the IBDP remains restricted to a relatively elite minority of China's population due to enrolment barriers for Chinese nationals and relatively high school fees. An implication is that…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Barriers
Optimising Meritocratic Advantage with the International Baccalaureate Diploma in Australian Schools
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Doherty, Catherine – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
This paper explores two of the tensions Tarc identifies in the history of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma: firstly, between its design for meritocratic competition and its internationalist vision and, secondly, between the IB as a global commodity and its localised interpretations. Using data from three case studies of Australian…
Descriptors: Educational History, Competition, Local Government, Foreign Countries